Meet the Artist: Taylor Waggoner
Remembering Together: Perth and Kinross have appointed their artist to co-create memorials with communities. Meet Taylor Waggoner.
Taylor is a graduate of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama with an acute interest in local culture and heritage. She has worked across several cultural organisations including the Scottish Crannog Centre, Perth Theatre and Perth Museum & Art Gallery developing community-based projects that creatively address social history. In 2021, Taylor founded Perth’s Women – an organisation that strives to better represent women’s history across Perth & Kinross. With a passion for writing and performance, Taylor implements local traditions, language, and lore into her work to ensure the identity of her community is represented at every stage.
Taylor says:
Image credit: Hollie Irvine
“The Perth & Kinross Remembering Together project will be approached through a three-pillar plan that aims to cultivate creative responses from every town, village, and city within its reach. The first pillar will focus on ‘Remembering Together Open Days’ where communities will be invited, through varying art forms, to discuss and create hyper-local memorials. The second pillar takes selected groups from around Perth & Kinross on a journey to create and perform their own living memorial to their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. Finally, the third pillar focuses on individuals, charities, businesses, and organisations allowing them to share their stories of love, loss, and remembrance.
By utilising the talents of Perth UHI’s Creative & Cultural Industries students, this project will work with new and emerging creatives to ensure that Remembering Together – Perth & Kinross is evolving alongside it’s community. “
“Working on the Remembering Together project with my community in Perth and Kinross is a privilege. I have worked on a number of co-curative projects across Perthshire and I’m aware of how generous this community is with it’s stories. We have struggled but through it all individuals and community groups have risen up to the challenge of helping one another in times of need, I’m humbled to have been given the opportunity to lead Remembering Together in this way.”